<p>Atlanta Public School
African American Male
Less than $30k income
GPA: 3.42
Living in Atlanta,GA
ACT: 29
Retaking on October and December trying to get a 32-34
Around top 25%</p>
<p>Senior Classes:
AP world
AP Govt
AP econ
AP calculus
H. World lit</p>
<p>UCLA Transcript:
Biological Threats To Society: B
Sociology: B</p>
<p>A part-time job since Freshman year
President of FBLA
Vice-President/Founder of Psych. Book Club
Chess Club
French Club
Cultural Diversity Club
100+ hours of volunteer.
Great Rec's & Essays</p>
<p>Schools:
Boston University
Georgia Tech
Syracuse
NYU (CAS)
Emory (Oxford College)
University of Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
Georgetown (Many alumn in family + Cousin is a bigtime professor at Gtown)
Tufts
Cornell</p>
<p>You definitely need to re-take your ACT, or try the SAT. Also, your GPA/class rank does not make you particularly competitive for Tufts, Cornell, Georgetown (unless your cousin professor can help you out), and maybe Carnegie Mellon. I think you may have to re-think your list.</p>
<p>Good list. Nice mix of safeties (GA Tech, Syracuse, Rochester?), matches, and reaches. You've got the hook of being a high-achieving URM and should get a lot of acceptances. Let's hope they come through with enough financial aid.</p>
<p>While I'm not fond of misleading titles, I'd rather see that title than all the "Chances for a black man!!" crap -- it's either a person over-playing his/her ethnicity, or someone lying to see whether their chances change in people's eyes for being a URM.</p>
<p>To the OP: you're an odd case, in that you have a rather low GPA for the schools you're applying to, but your scores (presumably) will be great, and your ECs are great, too. On top of that, you're a low-income URM. For that reason, I'd say your best bets are BU, G-tech, Syracuse, and to a lesser extent NYU, Rochester, Tufts, and CMU. You have a shot at Emory, Cornell, and Georgetown, though your GPA is holding you back. The rest of the app, though, might overshadow this.</p>
<p>Like seriously poor, but I suppose you know that.</p>
<p>And I think it was rude of you to use this thread title, because it intrigued me. One of the inferiors at my school is North Korean (btw, he has no sense of compassion - he just cannot relate to anything in my history class - but that's coz of his background) and I wanted to know what kind of colleges North Koreans can apply to, if any, in the States.*</p>
<p>You're a cool kid.</p>
<p>lol @ thread title btw. When I looked at it I was like what the ?</p>
<p>Best shots are at Boston University, Georgia Tech and Syracuse. (Probably good at all these right now if you've taken the sciences and foreign languages Georgia Tech and Syracuse require.)</p>
<p>Many of the rest are hard to judge until we know the new ACT score. I agree with kyledavid80's assessment for the most part, but think your chances are not quite as good at Tufts and NYU as he seems to indicate.</p>
<p>I don't understand how NYU would be a reach. The AVG GPA is a little higher than my GPA, but with a 32, it should be more like a match. Plus i'm not applying to Stern, only CAS. I agree with Tufts though, maybe a low reach.
Would being a soccer coach count as leadership?
Any other opinions?</p>
<p>Tufts' average (for enrolled class of 2011 -- which means accepted students is higher) ACT is 31; all average (again, enrolled class of 2011) SAT I sections are at least 715. And 86% are in the top 10% of their class.</p>
<p>For that reason, I believe Tufts is more of a reach than a low reach.</p>
<p>And the reason I think people are calling NYU CAS a reach for you is not because it's a reach for you stats-wise (GPA, rank, test scores) but because tens of thousands of kids apply there so it's not really a match for anyone with the "match-level" stats.</p>
<p>I pretty much agree with everyone else: retake the ACT and hope for the best. I'd actually say that your GPA is your weakest point, but I guess there's not much to do about that at this point so improve your ACT score and write good essays. I think your URM and low income status will help quite a bit.</p>
<p>And the thread title did make me want to click on it, lol.</p>